Central Alignment of notes (not rests or lyrics) in measure?
Hello! I haven't found a discussion directly on the alignment of noteheads within the measure. The final measure of the score I am working on has an ending chord which is left aligned, and I want to center it in the measure, graphically. Cut & paste changes nothing (except the lone rest above).
Meanwile I changed the graphic length of the whole measure so it looks a little less awkward --Picture attached.
Is this a graphic bug, or is there a way to change it?
Thanks in advance!
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In French MS
![Point d'orgue.png]( "Point d'orgue.png")
In reply to In French MS [inline:Point by Raymond Wicquart
Thankyou so much, it works! I would have to edit it even if I change the measure size, but this is also something. But sadly I get line unwanted line extentions:
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In reply to Thankyou so much, it works! I by RinatyaNessim
Use Chord offset rather than Element Offset, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/edit-mode#offsetting-notes. Makes the articulations (here: the fermatas) to follow automatically
In reply to Thankyou so much, it works! I by RinatyaNessim
For the rest you don't need the offset at all, just turn the full rest into a full measure rest, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/measure-rests#full-measure-rest
The picture in the initial post seems to indicate you'r using a full rest there rather than a full measure rests. They do look alike, but the latter is centered, the former left aligned
In reply to For the rest you don't need by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks! Chord offset did the trick.
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Amazing =)
Thanks for the quick support! I am posting what worked for people reaching this post in the future:
FWIW, though, centering notes in a measure is *not* standard. I wouldn't be too in a hurry to reproduce the errors in an original manuscript. But I think it's more to the point to observe that the original editor made the last measure narrow enough that even the default position *appeared* centered. I think that's what you should be instead consider striving for.
In reply to FWIW, though, centering notes by Marc Sabatella
Some classical scores and methods has this kind of notation style for whole and double whole notes (Just like whole measure and multi measure rests). only for : 4/4, Cebaré, 2/2, ... .
![bona-n051.png]( "bona-n051.png")
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But isn't appears on: dotted half note for 3/4, 6/8; and half note for 2/4 ... .
![bona-086.png]( "bona-086.png")
![bona-101.png]( "bona-101.png")
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examples from : Pasquale Bona, Complete Method for Rhythmic Articulation: 1905; White-Smith Pubishing. USA
In reply to Some classical scores and by Ziya Mete Demircan
That first example looks at me extremely funny. In fact my eye "stumbles" as it reads along. This makes reading the music harder than it needs to be. Interestingly the very first note is not centered in the measure. That makes it truly confusing.
Without knowing Gould I'd agree this is incorrect or at least suboptimal even if it has been printed (it happens that printed material is incorrect as we all know...).
Compressing the final measure however is a good idea: Why waste all that real estate you could use to improve some other part in the score?
In reply to That first example looks at by azumbrunn
First note is centered also; Sometimes time signature interfered.
a page of my first solfege book (in classic music conservatoire) :
Solfege Des Solfeges; Alber Lavignac; Henry Lemone - volume: 1B (other volumes: 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 6A)
In reply to Some classical scores and by Ziya Mete Demircan
That first example looks at me extremely funny. In fact my eye "stumbles" as it reads along. This makes reading the music harder than it needs to be. Interestingly the very first note is not centered in the measure. That makes it truly confusing.
Without knowing Gould I'd agree this is incorrect or at least suboptimal even if it has been printed (it happens that printed material is incorrect as we all know...).
Compressing the final measure however is a good idea: Why waste all that real estate you could use to improve some other part in the score?